UN Accredits Indian Entrepreneur With 'Young Champions of the Earth'
An engineer-entrepreneur Vidyut Mohan has won the United Nation's "Young Champions of the Earth" 2020 award for his social enterprise 'Takachar.' Reportedly, the model enables extra income to farmers as it buys rice husks, straw, and coconut, which they convert into fuels, fertilizers, and activated carbon. Moreover, 'Takachar' aims to favour 300 million Indian farmers by 2030 and eyes at generating income of USD 4 billion a year.